Words do no justice to just how lame/bad this movie was. No matter what angle you look at it from - it was poop. I am a huge James Patterson fan and have read all the Alex Cross books. Having a background knowledge of Alex Cross was kind of a prerequisite for this movie because they really didn't bother with any of his character development. You were just supposed to kind of know who he was. That being said - the movie was all over the place in terms of the books. The "wife" was never known in the books. Referred to but not known. His partner/best friend was a huge black guy named Sampson - not Ed Burns. His kids ages were all out of sync. They were in Detroit instead of Washington DC. It was beyond frustrating in so many ways. Was this supposed to be like a prequel to the Alex Cross in the books? As a stand alone movie - it was still horrible. The acting was sooooooo over the top. Especially Matthew Fox. Tyler Perry is atrocious casting as Alex Cross. He would have been better as the aforementioned non-existent Sampson. The story was just there and everything was pretty much happening haphazardly. This was like a lame 80's action movie that should have had Sylvester Stallone as a random cop or something.
I would not recommend anyone bothering with this. It was so beyond disappointing in every way. I just don't get it. If they were to just recreate the books like they did with Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider this could be the most easy to make 11 movie franchise at this point. Baffling how this can be so screwed up.
